Senior Sleuth Panel at Bouchercon

We had a great turnout for the SeniorSleuth panel at Bouchercon in San Diego. In preparation I tried an experiment:I went on ChatGPT and typed in “senior sleuth jokes.” The AI search enginereturned with nine jokes. I used two of them on the panel:

1.    Why did the retired detective become agardener? Because they wanted to keep digging up the truth, one plot at a time!

2.    Why did the old detective prefer solvingcrimes during the winter? Because they could always rely on cold cases to keepthem busy!

Two observations:

1.    ChatGPT wants to be gender neutral.

2.    It likes explanation points.

Here’s a picture of me with the panel members Steph Broadribb, Ellen Kirschman, Lisa Q.Mathews and Anna St. John.